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Can self-compassion help people reach their weight-loss goals?
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Losing weight is exceedingly tough because high-calorie, delectable foods are easily accessible. Despite our best intentions, it is usual to overeat. These setbacks can be frustrating and demoralising, prompting people to forsake their aspirations.
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Study shows sleep deprivation makes us less happy, more anxious
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Sleep deprivation does more than just make us sleepy. According to a study released by the American Psychological Association that synthesised more than 50 years of research on sleep deprivation and mood, it may hinder our emotional functioning, diminish good emotions, and increase our risk
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Anxious people use less suitable section of brain to control emotions: Stu
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
When deciding how to behave in socially awkward situations, anxious people use a different part of the forebrain than non-anxious people. According to a study by Bob Bramson and Sjoerd Meijer of Radboud University's Donders Institute, this can be seen in brain scans.
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Research reveals anxious people use less suitable section of brain to cont
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Anxious people use a less suitable section of the forebrain when choosing their behaviour in socially difficult situations than non-anxious persons. This can be detected in brain scans, according to research conducted by Bob Bramson and Sjoerd Meijer at Radboud University's Donders Institute
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Colonization influences worldwide distribution of plant specimens: Researc
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A study published in Nature Human Behaviour by a Florida State University researcher reveals how colonisation has influenced the distribution of plant specimens preserved in herbaria collections around the world.
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Science demonstrates why we cannot categorise our musical preferences into
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Favouritism is a crucial component of people's identities and social life. Human behaviour and judgement can be influenced by tastes. Due to music's ongoing diversification and development, it is challenging and debatable how to most accurately express musical taste.
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Doing good for others is beneficial to children's emotional, physical heal
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
According to a recent UTHealth Houston study, children and teenagers who volunteer tend to flourish both mentally and physically.
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Talking to your baby will boost brain development: Researchers
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
A team led by a University of Texas at Dallas neurodevelopment researcher has discovered some of the most solid evidence yet that parents who communicate with their children boost their babies' brain development.
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Study: How online art viewing can impact our well-being
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Art has the power to change our minds. But does this hold true while viewing artwork on a screen? This issue was chosen for investigation by an international research team directed by the University of Vienna, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, and the Max Planck Ins
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Study reveals how online art viewing can impact our well-being
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Art can improve our mindsets. But does this also apply while seeing the artwork on a screen? An international research team led by the University of Vienna, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfu
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Poor air quality linked to cognitive issues in babies: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to a recent study from the University of East Anglia, poor air quality may be causing cognitive deficiencies in newborns and toddlers.
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Some people might be attracted to others over minimal similarities: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a study published by the American Psychological Association, we are often attracted to those with whom we share an interest, but this attraction may be based on an erroneous belief that such shared interests represent a deeper and more fundamental similarity -- we share an essen
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